Towards the end of the "Playing for Success" term at the Diamonds Study Centre a week was set aside for Year 8 students, from Latimer, Montagu and Southfield Secondary schools as well as Year 5 pupils from Grange, Avondale and Millbrook Junior schools and a group of looked after children, from the Northamptonshire County Council "Kicin2study" project, to interview the Diamonds first team players.

They all had a great time interviewing first team players Phil Gulliver , Curtis Osano , Marcus Kelly , Tom Shaw , Lee Phillips , Michael Rankine , Jon Challinor , Martyn Margarson and Lawrence Lambley as well as some of the clubs prospective future stars in Adam Sharpe and Sean Calcutt.

The "Playing for Success" project is part of a national initiative which involves a partnership between the DCSF (Department for Children, Schools and Families) Northamptonshire County Council and the football club itself and one of its major objectives is to raise standards in literacy. The interview activity and the follow up work proved to be an extremely worthwhile exercise in the improvement of their speaking, listening and writing skills in a very enjoyable way. The stimulus of being enabled to interview professional footballers and to write about the experience proved to be invaluable in that the students were motivated to record what they had been told during the course of the interview.